and 25% of the registered democrats are dead...
15% were illegal aliens.
So..ah...how do we know that those DemocRATS voted for DemocRATS.
IMHO, this “early voting” phenomenon is an open invitation to fraud.
What I am interested in is the difference between the early voting for the GOP now and in 2008.
North Carolina Republican Party spokesman Jordan Shaw said he doesn’t necessarily put a lot of weight in the numbers of partisan turnout so far. He said some of the voters they targeted to get out early were Democrats who were leaning toward voting for the GOP, and he noted that Republicans performed better in early voting than years past.
“They have much less of a head start on us than they normally do,” Shaw said. “That bodes well for us on Tuesday.”
I guess all the Independents fell over dead.
Voter Registration as of 10/31/2010 Democratic: 2,764,304 Republican: 1,956,293.
Democrats have almost 18% more registered voters in NC than Repubs.
Now, look at the numbers.
http://www.redstate.com/brad_smith/2010/10/16/some-early-voting-numbers/
"In North Carolina, the breakdown on ballots returned by party registration so far is 42.2% Democratic, 40.2% Republican, and 17.5% Independent. This compares to a 2008 breakdown of 55.9% Democratic, 27.1% Republican, and 17.0% Independent.
There are several other states that ultimately report early voting data by party registration, but theyve not yet checked in."
The Dems are miles behind compared to 2008.
I’m afraid that without Helms, the NC GOP is hopelessly moribund.